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Wimshurst machine information


Wimshurst machine
Typeelectrostatic generator
InventorJames Wimshurst
Inceptionc. 1880
An engineering drawing of a Wimshurst machine, from Hawkins Electrical Guide
Wimshurst machine in operation
Quadruple sector-less Wimshurst machine

The Wimshurst machine or Wimshurst influence machine is an electrostatic generator, a machine for generating high voltages developed between 1880 and 1883 by British inventor James Wimshurst (1832–1903). [citation needed]

It has a distinctive appearance with two large contra-rotating discs mounted in a vertical plane, two crossed bars with metallic brushes, and a spark gap formed by two metal spheres.

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